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RSS Dec 9, 2025 7:41pm · Rolling Stone Music News

KATSEYE, a Sixty-Year-Old Hit, and the New Global Music Map

Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: a song she’d recorded in 1962 – the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis – was suddenly climbing the charts for the first t…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 7:13pm · Rolling Stone Music News

Smokey Robinson Says Jane Doe Accuser ‘Brazenly’ Raided His Storage Unit Last Month

The alleged theft last month was caught on surveillance video, a lawyer for the Motown singer and his wife claims in new court filings

RSS Dec 9, 2025 6:11pm · Music Business WorldWide

Reactional Music taps MusicInfra to build ‘next-generation’ rights management platform for gaming

'Music’s use has exploded across platforms and devices, which means that traditional frameworks and the supporting infrastructure must evolve...' Source

RSS Dec 9, 2025 6:07pm · Music Business WorldWide

MDLBEAST’s Mazen Khamis talks Soundstorm 2025, XP Music Futures, and growth in MENA’s music business

Mazen Khamis, Executive Director of Marketing, Commercial, and Products at MDLBEAST on organizing large-scale music events in Saudi Arabia Source

RSS Dec 9, 2025 5:48pm · Music Business WorldWide

Craig Kallman appointed Chief Music Officer of Warner Music Group

A&R veteran will continue to sign new artists to Big Beat Source

RSS Dec 9, 2025 5:42pm · Rolling Stone Music News

TikTok’s Top Global Song of the Year Is a 63-Year-Old Hit Single From Connie Francis

The video app reports that “Pretty Little Baby” was used more than 28.4 million times across its user base, placing it on top over Jess Glynne’s “Hold My Hand” and Black Eyed Peas’ “Rock That Body”

RSS Dec 9, 2025 5:39pm · Hypebot

African Artists Are Reaching More Global Listeners With Help From Audiomack

Music industry data analytics collector, Soundcharts, is teaming up with streaming and discovery platform, Audiomack, to help continue African Music's global expansion trajectory.…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 5:07pm · Music Business WorldWide

Great Mountain Partners launches $600m fund to invest in music and other media

GMP's new fund is seeking 'opportunities at the intersection of premium content, audiences, and new monetization models' Source

RSS Dec 9, 2025 5:04pm · Music Business WorldWide

Darya Pourshasb, ex-Spotify Global Head of Premium Content, named Chief Marketing Officer of Believe, as company acquires her music marketing platform ampd Method

Pourshasb previously served as Global Head of Premium Content at Spotify Source

RSS Dec 9, 2025 4:44pm · Pitchfork News

PUP Announce Live Album, Documentary, and Zine

The band is commemorating its Megacity Madness tour with a bevy of archival material

RSS Dec 9, 2025 4:00pm · Music Business WorldWide

Laura Segura named Executive Director at She Is The Music

Segura joins SITM after spending five years at MusiCares, where she led relief initiatives that distributed more than $51 million to music professionals. Source

RSS Dec 9, 2025 3:10pm · Rolling Stone Music News

Man Who Grabbed Ariana Grande on Red Carpet Removed From Lady Gaga Concert

After being deported from Singapore, the infamous stage crasher attempted to attend the Mayhem Ball Tour in Brisbane, Australia, in a disguise, but was spotted by fans and escorted out

RSS Dec 9, 2025 3:06pm · Hypebot

Clipping. Announced as the 2026 Sled Island Music Festival Guest Curator

In this post, we share details of Sled Island's announcement, plus how and why guest curators can offer local audiences a more bespoke largescale event experience in 2026. The post Clipping.…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 3:03pm · Pitchfork News

Dry Cleaning Reschedule 2026 Tour Dates Due to “Hostile Economic Forces”

The band has also shared the video for a new song, “Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit”

RSS Dec 9, 2025 3:01pm · Hypebot

Spotify adds Music Videos in US and Canada, soon for all Artists

Spotify is adding music videos for Premium users in the U.S, and Canada. While only a limited catalog of videos is available at launch, Spotify plans a much broader selection in the future.…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 2:00pm · Musically

Roxxem and Music League win 2025 Swimming with Narwhals contest

Language-learning app Roxxem and social music-discovery game Music League have taken home the prizes from this year’s Swimming with Narwhals. The post is from Music Ally.

RSS Dec 9, 2025 1:51pm · Musically

TikTok and Apple Music to stream Mariah Carey Christmas show

Mariah Carey may be one of the artists most hard-done-by in streaming services’ end-of-year recaps, given that most don’t include streams from December.…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 1:45pm · Musically

Ticketing firm SeatGeek joins Google agentic AI-search pilot

Agentic search is one of the AI buzzphrases of late 2025: referring to the use of AI to not just find information in response to your prompts, but also to carry out actions on your behalf. For example: booking tickets.…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 1:40pm · Musically

Grassroots venues to benefit when new artists headline The O2

This morning brings news of a partnership between London arena The O2 and charity the Music Venue Trust that will funnel money towards the latter’s work supporting grassroots venues.…

RSS Dec 9, 2025 1:36pm · Hypebot

How the ‘Middle-Class’ Nightclub Once Kept the DJ Club Scene Together

We can now veritably declare that the "middle-ground nightclub is dead." You now have two choices: enter the “Hyperclub” to perform for the algorithm, or pay a premium to hide in the dark.…